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+1 for platformio, I recently switched to it and working in VSCode on the code is much more to my liking than the separate Arduino IDE

Would someone doing a clean room reverse engineering be permissible to then share would they built?

Depends on the country; US, probably not. Many european countries, probably yes. Asia? Your gov will ask you why you would bother them with a stupid and meaningless question like that in the first place.

I don't think you need to move the mouse, you just need to click slightly offcenter while still bein inside the ball.


I was looking at the source and it appeared there was special handling on the mousemove event. I also had to introduce timeouts, otherwise it wouldn't work (not entirely sure why). So was being safer since I didn't want this to become a time sink :D


I guess the story here is more like

If you take the Top 500 companies as an indicator how well your economy is doing, but everything is carried on the shoulders of only 1.4% of those 500 companies then what is the point of looking at the 500 companies in the first place.

Make an S&P10 then instead. or in addition to the S&P500

That would probably be a good way to look at it anyway. Looking at the trend of the S&P10 vs. S&P500 and if they agree then thumbs up, but if they disagree then things might not be as rosy as everyone thinks


The problem with that approach is you miss out on the gains of tracking a company from when its market cap is small to when it is large, and only capture the opposite as it leaves the top 10.

This is one reason people are so concerned with companies going public later. If they just appear in their fully formed embodiments then you can only capture their growth after they are large and their death.


> If you take the Top 500 companies as an indicator how well your economy is doing, but everything is carried on the shoulders of only 1.4% of those 500 companies then what is the point of looking at the 500 companies in the first place.

It's valid to argue that success of companies in the S&P 500 is not evenly distributed, but if you really want to understand the impact of that distribution on the economy you have to look at the value of each company rather than treating them equally.

The top 7 companies might only be 1.4% of the companies in the S&P 500, but they represent roughly 35% of the market cap of companies in the index. Because of that, they have an impact on the broader economy much larger than the raw number of companies would suggest. "Just" Nvidia doing well is going to have a much larger economic impact than just Newell Brands, which I have never heard of but is apparently one of the smallest on the index. In fact Nvidia's market cap is roughly 1000 that of Newell Brands with presumably similarly disproportionate economic impact.


> Make an S&P10 then instead

How do you pick these 10? After the fact, necessarily. So then meaningless for tracking the economy.


Them not agreeing isn't a bug. I bet it's pretty historically normal.


How about S&PMedian? Wonder how this would do over the time.


Probably not well. You'll be consistently betting against the market with very little reason to believe you're really adding information.

Also, cap weighting reduces your need to trade and thus your overhead and tax costs.


Interesting idea, even average would probably already work, it would give high performers some impact but not as much as now.

But it kinda misses what the S&P is in my pov. An index tracking how the value of those companies developed over the years measures by what you would have now if you would have invested in each of them


+1 on that. Works for me after that


Since the democrats are not the ones in power at the moment, don't they have the bigger obligation towards the position of the people who voted for them. Which would be exactly the demand they are making right now.

The party who is running the country does in theory have an obligation to all Americans, the opposition has an obligation to their own block.


The Republicans are literally starving poor people. People who are on SNAP who have less than 3k in their bank accounts.

Hateful and incompetent is how most people would describe that.


Both parties are to blame.

About a decade ago, Tea Party Republicans were in the minority, they refused to approve the budget as the Democrats are doing now.

At that time, Democrats accused the Republicans of ‘holding the government hostage’. Now the roles are exactly reversed.

It’s games as usual.


Democrats refuse to vote the budget because the GOP removed almost all healthcare funding from it and won't compromise on that. If this budget passes as is, millions will die of preventable diseases. How is it on democrats?


Isn’t it true that the healthcare part only involves credits that were supposed to be temporary during COVID?

Also, isn’t it true that the expiring credits are for people who earn more money than ACA allowed? ( In other words, the poor still get assistance.)

Please provide receipts if there are other aspects to be considered.


Yes it’s true that those provisions expired, the Republicans are not changing or removing anything, and it’s the Democrats that are demanding additional funding to replace the Covid era funding that is expiring.


> Isn’t it true that the healthcare part only involves credits that were supposed to be temporary during COVID?

So? There's no rule that temporary things can't later become permanent.

For example the Trump tax cuts from 2017 were supposed to temporary, expiring this year. The "Big Beautiful Bill" made them permanent.

Also the healthcare part is not just letting temporary COVID era credits expire. It also includes cuts to Medicaid.


I thought that at first too until I read the first bullet point

" Stores all you sensitive data "

That's a grammar error I don't expect an LLM to make?


There are a couple more in the README too.

It's not impossible that an AI was asked to sprinkle in a few typos for effect, but perhaps it really is just written by a person who really loves emojis.


Maybe they wanted to intentionally make it look like AI as an added pun


I think the most defining factor of it is that you have the play store right there and can just run any normal android app too.

I even installed Termux via F-Droid today, and have a bluetooth keyboard with touchpad connected to it.


Sadly the whole open ecosystem is in grave doubt moving forward since Google announced they are shutting down side loading :-(


That's something I am worrying about too


The Vision Pro has the equivalent of this as well. 20% of the apps I run in it are “flatland” to use the snow crash term.


I can absolutely see that, yes

Not everything needs to be XR/VR/AR to be useful.


Isn't the difference here that to poison wikipedia you have to do it quite agressively vy directly altering the article which can easily be challenged whereas the training data poisoning can be done much more subversivly


You may be interested in this then https://github.com/mgschwan/viture_virtual_display

Or now that I think of it, just use the glasses with a regular hdmi adapter ( but no 3dof tracking then )


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